Many Southwest customers have been desperately trying something – anything – that will get them back home. But some passengers have been horrified to find other airlines posting last-minute flights to their destinations that can cost thousands of dollars. United and American Airlines say they have a solution: The airlines will place price caps on travel to and from select cities, the companies told CNN. Although it didn’t specifically mention Southwest, American implied the price caps were designed to help the melted-down airline’s customers get home. The price caps vary by location in areas affected by cancellations, an American Airlines spokesperson told CNN. Southwest did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. American Airlines notified customers about the price caps in a series of tweets directed at people who posted screenshots of thousand-dollar flights.<br/>
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Turkish Airlines carried just over 72m passengers this year and sees that rising to more than 88m next year, the chairman of the national carrier said, according to state-run Anadolu news agency. "We are planning to carry more than 88m passengers in 2023," Chairman Ahmet Bolat was quoted as telling Anadolu. Bolat said Turkish Airlines plans to make a $3.8b investment next year and expects about a 17-20% increase in capacity, according to the report. The flag-carrier plans to raise the number of aircraft in its fleet to 427 by the end of 2023, from 396 currently, Bolat was also quoted as saying.<br/>
US air safety experts say Ethiopian inspectors investigating the cause of an Ethiopian Airlines' crash that killed nearly 160 people in 2019 did not pay enough attention to crew training and emergency procedures in their report. The United States NTSB, in dissenting comments included in the Ethiopian report, disagreed with at least two key findings of the investigation into the crash of a Boeing 737-MAX flight. The accident led to the grounding of similar jets. The NTSB is involved as Boeing is a US company. Fight 302 crashed shortly after take-off from Addis Ababa in March 2019, killing all 157 people on board. Ethiopia's Aircraft Investigation Bureau released its long-delayed report last Friday. It blamed the accident on "uncommanded" inputs from Boeing's Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System, known as MCAS. The inputs, which were caused by faulty data from an underlying sensor, sent the plane's nose down repeatedly, leading to loss of control as the pilots tried to deal with several warnings in the cabin, the report said. But in its comments, the NTSB said it found the faulty sensor may have been damaged by a bird strike soon after take-off, an assertion that was ignored by the Ethiopian investigators. The Ethiopians did not find any evidence that the sensor was damaged in flight due to lack of any physical clues like a dead bird in the vicinity of the flight's path, their report said. The NTSB, however, said the sensor was never recovered at the crash site in spite of a partial search by both sides a week after the accident. Boeing has previously said the MCAS was a safety feature and the issues identified after the crash of flight 302, which followed one of a similar plane in Indonesia five months earlier, have been rectified.<br/>